Committees Organizing Committee Carmen San Martín (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CNB-CSIC Spain)David Curiel (Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA)Katherine Excoffon (Wright State University, OH, USA)Rubén Hernández-Alcoceba (FIMA-University of Navarra, Spain)Javier Sánchez Céspedes (Institute of Biomedicine of Seville IBiS, Spain)Mark van Raaij (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CNB-CSIC, Spain) Scientific Committee Maria Benkö (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)James Chodosh (Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA)Cristina Fillat (Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain)Gunnel Hallden (Queen Mary University of London, UK)Patrick Hearing (Stony Brook University, NY, USA)Michael Hess (Vetmeduni, Vienna, Austria)Eric Kremer (Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier – CNRS, Montpellier, France)Thomas Lion (Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria)Suresh Mittal (Purdue University, IN, USA)Karoly Toth (Saint Louis University, MO, USA)